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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

You're reading from   Enhancing Productivity with Notion Save time on projects by supercharging your productivity with Notion's powerful features and templates

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232089
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Danny Hatcher Danny Hatcher
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Settings and Structure
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance 4. Chapter 3: Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings 5. Chapter 4: All the Building Blocks 6. Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
7. Chapter 5: All the Basic Database Properties 8. Chapter 6: Database Views 9. Chapter 7: Database Features and Functions 10. Chapter 8: Basic Formula Functions 11. Chapter 9: Advanced Formula Combinations 12. Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows
13. Chapter 10: Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow 14. Chapter 11: Using API Integration and Add-on Options 15. Chapter 12: Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and a Wiki Example 16. Chapter 13: Other Example Use Cases 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Contextual dashboards

In this section, you will learn how to utilize the master database setup to create customized contextual dashboards using linked databases. There will be various examples shown using various filters, sorts, groups, and viewing differences to illustrate some of the combinations that are available. This is useful to understand, as each person is likely to have different needs from the information that is stored, and learning how to create contextual dashboards will open up much of Notion's database power.

A potential setup configuration

Using the same master databases from the previous section, Figure 10.3 shows a potential setup configuration:

Figure 10.3 – A list and gallery contextual dashboard

As linked database views don't allow for a name change, the Tasks database can be seen twice in Figure 10.3, as there are two different linked database views on the same page, with one linked database view of the Projects...

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